1715 in music
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Events
- VaudevilleVaudevilleVaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
is staged for the first time in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. - Francesco GeminianiFrancesco Geminianithumb|230px|Francesco Geminiani.Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.-Biography:...
performs at the court of King George I of Great BritainGeorge I of Great BritainGeorge I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698....
, accompanied by Handel.
Classical music
- Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
- Englische Suiten
- Cantata 31 Der Himmel lacht die Erde jubilert
- François CouperinFrançois CouperinFrançois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.-Life:Couperin was born in Paris...
Concerts royaux. - Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
Stabat Mater.
Opera
- Johann Augustin Kobelius – Der unschuldig verdammte Heinrich, Fürst von Wallis
- Giuseppe Maria OrlandiniGiuseppe Maria OrlandiniGiuseppe Maria Orlandini was an Italian baroque composer particularly known for his more than 40 operas and intermezzos...
– Bacocco e Serpilla - Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
– Il Tigrane - Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
– La Dirindina - Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
– Nerone Fatto Cesare
Births
- January 12 – Jacques DuphlyJacques DuphlyJacques Duphly was a French harpsichordist and organist, and the composer of bright, lively, and attractive keyboard music.- Biography :...
, composer (died 1789) - January 29 – Georg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph Wagenseil was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, and became a favorite pupil of the Vienna court'sKapellmeister, Johann Joseph Fux. Wagenseil himself composed for the...
, composer (died 1777) - April 11 – John AlcockJohn Alcock (organist)John Alcock, was an English organist and composer. He wrote instrumental music, glees and much church music.-Career:...
, composer - April 19 – James NaresJames NaresJames Nares was an English composer of mostly sacred vocal works, though he also composed for the harpsichord and organ....
, composer (died 1783) - April 23 – Johann Friedrich DolesJohann Friedrich DolesJohann Friedrich Doles was a German composer and pupil of J.S. Bach.Doles was born in Steinbach-Hallenberg. He attended the University of Leipzig...
, composer (died 1797) - April 28 – Franz SparryFranz SparryFranz Sparry was a composer of the Baroque period.Sparry was born in Graz, and joined the Benedictine order. He wrote a Tafelmusik. He died in Kremsmünster.-References:*MGG...
, composer (died 1767) - May 11:
- Johann Gottfried Bernhard BachJohann Gottfried Bernhard BachJohann Gottfried Bernhard Bach was the fourth child to reach adulthood of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Born in Weimar, he attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig, his father providing for his musical formation...
, organist and son of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
(died 1739) - Ignazio FiorilloIgnazio FiorilloIgnazio Fiorillo was an Italian composer. He is known as an author of opera seria, often composed to the libretti of Pietro Metastasio.- Biography :Fiorillo was born in Naples, Italy...
, composer (died 1787)
- Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
- November 16 – Girolamo AbosGirolamo AbosGirolamo Abos, last name also given Avos or d'Avossa and baptized Geronimo Abos , was a Maltese-Italian composer of both operas and church music....
, composer (died 1760) - December – Isabella LampeIsabella LampeIsabella Lampe was an English operatic soprano and the wife of composer John Frederick Lampe...
, soprano and wife of John Frederick LampeJohn Frederick LampeJohn Frederick Lampe was a musician.He was born in Saxony, but came to England in 1724 and played the bassoon in opera houses. His wife, Isabella Lampe, was sister-in-law to the composer Thomas Arne with whom Lampe collaborated on a number of concert seasons...
(died 1795) - December 12 – Gennaro MannaGennaro MannaGennaro Manna was an Italian composer based in Naples. His compositional output includes 13 operas and more than 150 sacred works, including several oratorios.-References:...
, composer - date unknown
- Giovanni Battista CasaliGiovanni Battista CasaliGiovanni Battista Casali was an Italian musician.Casali was born in Rome in 1715. From 1759 until his death he held the position of choir-master in the Basilica of St. John Lateran...
, musician (died 1792) - Francesco ZoppisFrancesco ZoppisFrancesco Zoppis was an Italian composer.- Biography :Little is known of his artistic beginnings. The first mention of him is from 1739, when the travelling opera company of Pietro Mignotti performed his opera Lucio Papirio ditattore in Graz...
, composer (died after 1781)
- Giovanni Battista Casali
Deaths
- January 22 - Marc'Antonio ZianiMarc'Antonio ZianiMarc'Antonio Ziani was an Italian composer in Vienna.Marc'Antonio was born in Venice. He probably studied with his uncle, the organist Pietro Andrea Ziani. From 1686 to 1691 Ziani was maestro di cappella to Duke Ferdinando Carlo di Gonzaga in Mantua, but simultaneously developed his career as an...
, composer (born c.1653) - February 3 – Gottfried Vopelius, composer
- July 30 – Nahum TateNahum TateNahum Tate was an Irish poet, hymnist, and lyricist, who became England's poet laureate in 1692.-Life:Nahum Teate came from a family of Puritan clergymen...
, hymn-writer and lyricist (born 1652) - September 2 – Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer
- date unknown - Antonio de SalazarAntonio de Salazar (composer)Antonio de Salazar was a Mexican composer.Salazar arrived in New Spain in 1688 as chapel master of Puebla Cathedral, then later held his final position later at Mexico City Cathedral...
, composer (born c.1650) - probable - Daniel EberlinDaniel EberlinDaniel Eberlin was a German Baroque composer and Kapellmeister.Eberlin had a vagrant lifestyle. After a brief military career , he worked as a librarian in his hometown, Nuremberg. Later he became Kapellmeister at the Eisenach court...
, composer (born 1647)